Juveniles in Somalia face abuses in sentencing in the war-torn nation as conflict between the government militias and the al-Shabaab Islamist group continues. Children in rural communities are being captured to serve as child soldiers for the insurgent group. These…

Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the convicted gunmen from the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is appealing his sentence of life without the possibility of parole to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Malvo was just seventeen when he served as…

On February 23rd, the Human Rights Brief hosted its inaugural Disability Rights Symposium in conjunction with the Washington College of Law’s (WCL) Disability Law Society. The first panel was titled “Immigration, Refugee Law, and Disability Rights” and featured Michael Tan…

The United States government is failing its children. According to research published in the journal, Health Affairs, children in the United States are seventy times more likely to die before adulthood than children in other developed countries. In a survey…

In June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). This decision has come to be known as “Brexit” and was met with shaky support, to say the least. The departure will happen on March 29,…